RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Gambling

4.28.2005

Gambling

Gambling debate, blah blah blah. How about an education debate? With all of the teacher layoffs in the past few weeks, the state should be happy to welcome gambling to the state as a new source of money. Use the cash to save our schools and to save me from having to hear about another round of senatorial B.S.

Participants debated the limits of gambling, the strength of opposition from key Republican leaders and Christian groups, and whether Gov. Bob Taft's anti-gambling stance is firm or flimsy.

There was consistent use of bus analogies -- as in busloads of gamblers leaving the state, the need to toss some people under the wheels of the bus to keep it moving, and what would happen if a key opponent happened to be hit by a bus.

I really didn't need to quote that last paragraph, but the image of key opponents getting hit by bus made me giggle.

The BJ :: Putting cards on the table

(joe :: Gambling)

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